How long can you stand on one leg with eyes close without falling? Most 20 yr olds can do 30 seconds, 70 year olds only 4-5

First 15 seconds were a bit wonky, but then stabilized and held steady for over a minute, at which point I opened my eyes

I'm regular foot so my back leg is the balancer, I did this and got bored at 60s, appeared indefinite duration. With lead foot it was a little wobbly and I git bored at 60s also. Am 46, lifelong skateboarder/surfer

I listened to several leading orthopedic docs say this is the determining test when used to determine whether or not one is ready to return to running after an ankle injury.

Can easily do 60 seconds on my left foot but near impossible to go more than 5 on my right.

I’m 60

Damn

I've try this later. But I can tell you that I'm in my 60s, and balance is the first thing to go, especially if you're putting all of your weight on in front around the gut

Right foot: 20.5 seconds, but a lot of swiveling around.

Left foot: 5.1 seconds. Nerts.

Age 67 (almost).

Second try on the left: 20.1

Second try on the right: 19

Nerts. Evidently I have work to do.

I just did a hand stand with eyes closed , held for 15 seconds. fyi , I'm not a runner, i do athletic sports.

The Rock #2 wrote:

I just did a hand stand with eyes closed , held for 15 seconds. fyi , I'm not a runner, i do athletic sports.

I just took a dump with my eyes closed and NO HANDS. I even impressed myself.

Balance is important, but having seniors try to balance with eyes closed is dangerous and a bad idea.

Keeping eyes open is much better, and can be practiced more often this way.

Don’t lock your knee. Ever so slightly unlock your knee, keep core tight, control breathing and you’ll stay there all day.

Alan

stopped at a minute on both sides. Could have continued a very long time on the left, but the right was getting tired from adjustments, probably unstable from old injuries.

This is good training! I'm gonna work my way up to 10 minutes.

Well, sheeeit. I cant go longer than ~7 seconds on either leg. 58 years old.

I usually do these as part of my warmups before hard runs. I stand on one leg and stick the other up backwards with my eyes closed and standing. Sometimes it takes a few attempts before I can hold it. I usually just try it for 20 seconds on each leg.

Started off badly, but after a few times could go much longer.

dsfgsdg wrote:

Started off badly, but after a few times could go much longer.

You still talking about your honeymoon?

2 Minute Tommy wrote:

dsfgsdg wrote:

Started off badly, but after a few times could go much longer.

You still talking about your honeymoon?

Of course!

In college a guy I knew had to get a lot of people to do this for his stats class. I quit after about 5 minutes out of boredom. I'm sure at some point fatigue would kick in, but at the time, it seemed like I could've gone forever. Chalk it up to a decade of taekwondo.

Left leg: 5-28 seconds. Mean: 8 seconds

Right leg: 4-15 seconds. Mean: 5 seconds

I'm going to do this test now. I will report back!